Tradition 02 of 33
Ritual magic and grimoires
Ceremonial and ritual magic, grimoires, spellcraft, talismans, sigils, and magical manuals.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 2,483
- Earliest
- 500 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 1,520 with public full text
- With covers
- 73%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,133
- Metadata match478
- Query match870
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
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Key subjects
- Magic516
- History232
- Social Sciences172
- Magie166
- Art147
- Arts and Humanities141
- Occultism135
- Fiction130
- Witchcraft127
- Philosophy124
- MAGIC (telescope)112
- Talismans107
- Juvenile fiction105
- Literature100
- Text81
- RELIGION72
- Early works to 180071
- Non-fiction literature70
- Astrology68
- Demonology68
- Fantasy fiction68
- Orthography and spelling67
- Fantasy63
- Archeology62
Top languages
- English1,044 · 42%
- German486 · 20%
- NOT309 · 12%
- Latin213 · 9%
- French112 · 5%
Notable authors
All authors- Wolfgang Hildebrand27 in this tradition30 books
- Giambattista della Porta25 in this tradition41 books
- Walter Scott21 in this tradition37 books
- James George Frazer18 in this tradition20 books
- L. Frank Baum16 in this tradition21 books
- Johannes Wier16 in this tradition18 books
- Kaspar Schott16 in this tradition17 books
- John John Rea Neill15 in this tradition17 books
- Levinus Lemnius14 in this tradition17 books
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim12 in this tradition22 books
- Scott Cunningham10 in this tradition16 books
- Jean Bodin10 in this tradition15 books
2,483 books
Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism
Yosef Dan, Karl E. Grözinger
1995
Parapsychology, Science or Magic?: A Psychological Perspective
James E. Alcock
1981
Pieces of mind
Bob Somerfeld
1952
Prepossessed
Ron Baillie
1954
Ritual & performance in medieval medical manuscripts
Rebecca JS Nice
2018
Ritual and magic in the control of contagion
Julius Alfred Roth
1979
Scot's Discovery of witchcraft
Reginald Scot
1651
Tarot telepathy
Thayer Manufacturing Co
1948
The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David
David Rankine, Paul Harry Barron
2010
The Discovery of witchcraft: proving that the compacts and contracts of witches with devils and all infernal spirits or familiars are but erroneous novelties and imaginary conceptions ... In sixteen books
Reginald Scot
1665
The Hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim called Paracelsus the Great
Paracelse
1894
The apocryphal acts of Peter
1998
The bathhouse at midnight
W. F. Ryan
1999
The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy
Arthur Edward Waite
1942
The book of the sacred magic of Abra = Melin, the mage : as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech, A grimoire of the fifteenth century
S. L. MacGregor Mathers
1932
The great book of magical art, Hindu magic and East Indian occultism
Lauron William de Laurence
1939
The grimoire : and other supernatural stories
Montague Summers
1936
The history of magic
Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Howitt, William Howitt, Harry Houdini Collection
1854
The life and mysteries of the celebrated Dr. "Q."
C Alexander
1946
The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim
Franz Hartmann
1896
The real secret of the stage second sight act
Burling Hull, Robert Gould Shaw
1916
The supernatural? : with chapter on oriental magic, spiritualism, and theosophy
Lionel Alexander. Weatherly, John Nevil Maskelyne, R. A. Gilbert
2000
Thought-reading exposed
Albert Morrow, Harry Houdini Collection
1914
Witchcraft
Martine Ostorero
2019